LEIBNIZ, THE “FLOWER OF SUBSTANCE,” AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE SAME BODY 1

Although Leibniz’s doctrine of the flos substantiae, or flower of substance, has started to attract a great deal of attention from scholars in recent years, it continues to remain on the periphery of Leibniz scholarship, the discussions of it in the recent literature together amounting to little more than a story half-told. The aim of this article is to build on these recent discussions and thus round out the story of the flos substantiae doctrine by offering an in-depth treatment of its content and context. Forming the backdrop to the majority of Leibniz’s discussions of the flos substantiae is a series of problems connected with the belief in the resurrection of